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An omnibus of the first two Solar Queen space adventures follows the career of young cargo assistant Dane Thorson, who alongside his diverse crewmates struggles with the challenges of their interstellar cargo ship and a series of adversaries.
Sargasso of Space is the debut novel in Solar Queen series by Andrew Norton. The book introduces the readers to Dane Thorson, a cargo apprentice who by mechanical pyscho selection is assigned to the Solar Queen, a trader ship. The ship's crew pulls all its entire earnings and wins a whole planet at an auction. The team then explores this mysterious planet known as Limbo where they discover the remains of a lost civilization, as well as space pirates, globular natives, strange artifacts and many others.
Plague ship: The Solar Queen travels to Sargol, homeworld to a race of sentient felines, the Salariki. When a mysterious illness overtakes all the crew except the four youngest, the Galactic Patrol labels the Queen plagued and orders it to be destroyed on sight.
"First Edition: December 2003."--Title page verso.
"The Solar Queen (as omnibus) © 2003."--Title page verso.
Cover art information from ISFDB, publication record #47496.
One of the Cushing Library/Science Fiction copies was acquired as part of the personal Science Fiction/Fantasy library of Anne McCaffrey as donated by her son Todd McCaffrey.
One of the Cushing Library/Science Fiction copies donated by Vic Horadam.
Sargasso of space originally published: New York : Gnome Press, 1955
Plague ship originally published: First edition New York : Gnome Press, [1956] under pseudonym Andrew North.